Re: Sections 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 allow bogus Content-Length?

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017, Matthew Kerwin wrote:

> That, along with everything else in 3.3.2 & 3.3.3, and 3.4 makes me wonder 
> how anyone could find ambiguity there. If C-L is present, it has to be 
> correct.

... but we still see a significant amount of content on the web today that 
serve bodies with sizes that aren't matching the C-L value.

I went several rounds against that, trying to make Firefox's C-L checks 
stricter, but finally lost in the end and had to resort to keeping funky 
heuristics and guessworks.

The web is a harsh place! =)

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  / daniel.haxx.se

Received on Tuesday, 14 February 2017 22:06:37 UTC